A bibliography of the Haida language

Bibliographic Data

ID20259754
AuthorsJoseph F Kess (University of Victoria, corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume14
Issue1
Pages63-65
Publication date1968-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4131 • E-ISSN: 1710-1115
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008413100019666
OpenAlexW2797800312
LanguageEN
References cited9

Haida was originally spoken in the Queen Charlotte Islands, a group of some 200 islands situated off the western coast of British Columbia. The islands are separated from the mainland by a channel varying from 30 to 60 miles in width, known as the Hecate Straits. A smaller group of Haida settlements was located to the immediate northeast of the Queen Charlottes, across Dixon’s Entrance. These were situated principally on Dall Island and in the southern portions of Prince of Wales Island in what is now Alaska. Apparently, a small band of several hundred Haidas had migrated from the northwestern portion of the Queen Charlotte group, possibly from Langara Island. The move was relatively recent, having taken place some 250 years ago, before the first European contacts. Several villages were established, but these were largely abandoned in favor of the newly laid-out Hydaburg after 1912

Archaeology · Geography · Human settlement · Mainland · Queen (butterfly) · Situated · Ecology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution

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